daveb@perth.DIALix.oz.au (David Brooks) writes:
... I have just been working with some fairly heavy-duty C++ code, and it
can be quite baffling to get a (sometimes misleading) compiler
diagnostic, which points at a line containing a really heavy compound
statement. It's by no means always obvious what the compiler is
objecting to. ...

Indeed, that's why I dislike compilers that only give line numbers. I
much prefer character position or failing that line -and- column.
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